Principles of the Relation between Local Adverb, Verb and Sentence Particle in Hittite.(Book Review)

The Journal of the American Oriental Society | January 1, 2003| | Copyright

By F. A. TJERKSTRA. Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 15. Groningen: STYX PUBLICATIONS, 1999. Pp. xii + 204. HF1 150.

Hittite possesses a class of adverbial elements pertaining to location, including anda "in(to)," katta "down(wards)," and ser "upwards, on top," that are variously termed preverbs, adpositions, or local adverbs. The varied nomenclature reflects the diversity of functions and syntactic behavior that they famously exhibit and that have been the subject of numerous studies from Hrozny's time on. The book under review is an important addition to that ...

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